Microstructural correlations of white matter tracts in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 531-541

  Wahl, Michael ^a,b   Li, Yi Ou ^a   Ng, Joshua ^a   LaHue, Sara C ^a   Cooper, Shelly R ^a   Sherr, Elliott H ^b   Mukherjee, Pratik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain; Cognition; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fiber tractography; Hierarchical clustering; Human; Language; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77951976506     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.072     Document Type: Article

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